Introduction for Instruments of Spine Endoscopic Surgery

Instrument Availability For Spine Endoscopic Surgery:

Unfortunately just the existence of the endoscope does not automatically allow the spine surgeon to perform surgery endoscopically. First, the surgeon must first recognize if the surgery can be performed without a formal incision. Currently only a small number of spinal surgeries can be performed utilizing an endoscopic approach. Once deciding to perform the surgery endoscopically, the surgeon must determine if all of the instruments and implants (screws, rods, and cages) are available to perform the surgery. You may ask, if the surgery is now being performed with a formal incision, are not all of the tools and implants needed to perform the surgery already available? The answer to this is unfortunately no. Instruments used for endoscopic surgery differ from the instruments used to perform surgery through a formal incision.